There’s little doubt in any objective person’s mind that Sidney Crosby is superior to Alexander Ovechkin, just ask the players in the NHL who recently voted him, at an overwhelming 56%, the best player in the league (source: The Hockey News).But there’s been lots of talk even since before Evgeni Malkin made his NHL debut as to who is better: The 2004 1st overall pick (Alexander Ovechkin) or the 2004 2nd overall pick (Evgeni Malkin).

It is nearing the end of the regular season and there has been a lot of busts and also a lot of surprises this year. Here is a list of people who got paided a lot and had a lot of exceptions on there back, but never lived up to there exceptions.

2006-2007 busts.

Nikolai Zherdev salary: Signed a $7.5 million, three-year deal.Result: 66 games played 10 goals and 31 points.Comments: I and many other people expected big things from this kidafter that 27 goal performance last year. I think his problem is he must become more dedicated to the NHL game.

This year I hope the Leafs can make the playoffs, if they do I’m still not convinced they belong though. The team is just way too inconsistent, their needs to be some changes. With the salary cap going up next season, and the Leafs with some excess spending money, they will definitely make some upgrades.

Once for the B’s losing to the Pen’s, and once for the playoff “pie in the sky” hopes.

For a little over a week or two, i really didn’t think we had a chance- the teams we had to play, road games in tough barns, home games with about as many Bruins fans as the opposing team, no PP goals, tons of SH goals, no Murry, no Axelsson,,, ok,im being redundant there.

All this talk of a fantasy trade involving Sidney Crosby and remembering how exciting the first transactions were post-lockout (when players were bought out by teams and every 5 minutes, a star player was donning a new uniform) have made me think of a way that this NHL could really become not only more exciting, but downright mainstream interesting.

Every 3 years, all the teams get re-drafted. I understand this will NEVER HAPPEN, but it just might be a great idea. Let me explain.

Ok………first off im just going to say that this is an opinon, something I just thought of but if you could trade crosby who would it be? Who would the Pens want back in return? As a Penguins fan a would never even come close to trading him but if had to i would ask for a hell of alot back in returnthis is unrealistic but i’ll give it a shot.

Currently sitting in the final playoff spot the Habs have won 5 straight and have been on fire as of late. With recent wins coming against Toronto, Boston twice, Washington and more impressively the New York Rangers, the Canadiens look to be a major contender for one of the last 3 spots available. They have also won 7 out of 8 and show no signs of quit.